Enter a seal record

This record is being submitted to the Dorset Seals Project. If you have a Dorset Seals Project account, please log in so that this sighting appears in your records. If you are not already registered with Dorset Seals Project you can register so that you don't have to fill in your details for every record. However, you can continue without registering by providing your details below. We ask for these in case we need to contact you when verifying your sighting. They will not be used for any other purpose.

First name:

Please provide your first name

Last name:

Please provide your surname

Email:*

Please provide your email address. This will only be used to contact you if we require further information to verify the record.

Seal species:

Common Seal

Grey Seal

Uncertain seal species

*

Please select "Uncertain seal species" if unsure.

Number of animals:

Date:*

Time:
hh:mm

If you took any photos, click the button below to upload them.

Photos:

Please provide the location of the record. Use the map to search for a place then click or tap on the map to set it. Alternatively enter the lat/long reference directly if you know it.

Location:*

Search for Place on Map:

Click to set map ref

(hold -)

(hold +)

Approx. map reference accuracy:

Within 100m

Within 1km

Please indicate approximately how accurate you regard the given map reference to be.

Sex:

Not recorded

Male

Female

Mixed

Seal age:

Pup/juvenile

Adult

Mixed group

Behaviour:

Hauled out - resting on land/out of water

Feeding

Bottling/resting in the water

Diving

Porpoising

Swimming - travelling

Please tick all that apply. Any additional observations on the behaviour can be entered below.

Other behaviour notes:

Weather conditions:

Sunny

Cloudy

Raining

Mist/fog

Please select the predominant weather.

Sea state:

Calm

Choppy

Rough

Very rough

Stormy

Additional details:

In filling in this form and providing us with your email address you are consenting to us contacting you about your sighting.

Where appropriate we would like to pass on the details of your sighting to the Dorset Environmental Records Centre in order for it to be of use in local and national conservation projects. This would include your name, but not your contact details. Please tick if you are happy for us to do this.

We will never give your information to any other organisation to use for their own purposes.

Please tick to confirm you are happy for us to keep details of your sighting on our database:*